Physical Education

Children begin to learn the nature of rules and strategy and develop an appreciation for sports citizenship and cooperation. Activities include throwing and catching, basic tumbling, agility skills, obstacle courses, and perceptual motor games.

See the full Early Childhood program.

Building on basic skills learned during the Early Childhood program, children begin to engage in basic cooperative games but the focus is on skill building, including throwing and catching balls, basic tumbling, and agility skills.

See the full Grade 1 program.

Many different games are introduced, incorporating skill development, rules, and strategies while concentrating on fitness. Teamwork, fair play, and sportsmanship are stressed. Children learn and practice throwing and catching, footwork and agility, and play intramural soccer, badminton, volleyball, and beginning baseball.

See the full Grade 2 program.

Children develop a positive lifelong attitude toward physical activity and its benefits and strive to perform to the best of their abilities. They acquire age-appropriate fundamental skills, an understanding of rules and strategy, and an appreciation of sports citizenship and cooperation. In addition to sports skills, students engage in agility activities such as tumbling, hula hoops, perceptual motor rhythm games, balancing, and obstacles.

See the full Grade 3 program.

Sports skills and citizenship, cooperative games, and perceptual motor rhythm games form the core of the program. Grade 4 students take the "physical best" fitness test.

See the full Grade 4 program.

Children play many types of team games, such as soccer, basketball, baseball, and lacrosse, honing their basic throwing and agility skills. Grade 5 students take the "physical best" fitness test.

See the full Grade 5 program.

Students choose each season to play a sport or to participate in physical education. The Physical Education classes teach sports skills, movement and fitness, and games that keep students active and healthy. Students may choose to join an interscholastic sports team. Teams practice during the school day and include soccer, cross-country, basketball, and lacrosse.

See the full Grade 6 program.

Students choose each season to play a sport or to participate in Physical Education, which focuses on sports skills, movement and fitness, and health. In Grades 7-8, team opportunities increase to include tennis, field hockey, softball or baseball.

See the full Grade 7 program.

In Grade 8, many students choose to play on intramural teams, especially soccer, basketball, field hockey, softball or baseball, and tennis. All students who wish to play on a team are included and have playing time. Skill development and sportsmanship are the keystones of all Physical Education and sports programs at the Academy.

See the full Grade 8 program.

A number of options are available to students in Physical Education in Grade 9. Students may choose In-School Physical Education, a course which strives to instill in each student an appreciation for the lifelong benefits of physical fitness. After-School Physical Education is available to students who wish to engage in intense exercise in the Fitness Center. Theater Dance can also be taken as Physical Education. Students who play on a Sewickley Academy athletic team meet their Physical Education requirement during that season.

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Eighty percent of Senior School students play on a Sewickley Academy athletic team, thereby meeting the Physical Education requirement. Teams include mens' and womens' soccer, cross-country, basketball, lacrosse, as well as field hockey, baseball and softball. Students may also take In or After-School Physical Education, which focuses on personal fitness, or Theater Dance.

See the full Grade 10 program.

See the full Grade 11 program.

See the full Grade 12 program.